Paragraph 25 The Magistrates' Courts (Adoption) Rules 1984

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. para. 4-13 revoked by Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) 1991 Sch. 3
Sch. para. 28-31 revoked by Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) 1991 Sch. 3
Sch. para. 2 revoked by Magistrates' Courts (Enforcement or Variation of Orders Made in Family Proceedings and Miscellaneous Provisions) 2011 Sch. 5
Sch. para. 21-27 revoked by Courts Act 2003 (Revocations, Savings and Transitional Provisions) 2005 Sch.

In Schedule 2 to those Rules, in paragraph 1–

(a)

for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:

“(b)

whether the child’s father and mother were married to each other at the time ofhis birth.”; and

(b)

in sub-paragraph (i) for the words “if the child is illegitimate” there shall be substituted the words “if the father and mother of the child were not married to each other at the time of his birth”.